Represent your neighborhood, support a victim, and interface with an offender to bring resolution for all in a conflict.
OVM began offering Neighborhood Accountability Boards (NAB) in 2017. In these restorative circles, offenders meet with community members to discuss their situation. Community members are not a jury, but rather concerned neighbors with the interest of the victim, offender, and whole community in mind.
NAB encourages participants to take responsibility for their actions, striving to make decisions that will positively contribute to the community. In many cases a NAB is an alternative for a juvenile offender who would otherwise face charges in the justice system.
NAB meetings are scheduled according to participants' schedule availability, are sometimes performed via videoconference if preferred by participants, and usually last about an hour. Typically there is only one NAB meeting per case.
Program Info: https://www.ovmks.org/community-justice-programming.html
